Bobby August Jr. has been writing, acting, and improvising in the Bay Area for the past several years where he also cofounded Instant Noodles Film - a production company that specializes in film shorts.  Their films have won several awards at the National Film Challenge.  Some of August's favorite stage performances include portraying Romeo in a touring production of Romeo and Juliet, Prince Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Howie in Rabbit Hole, and The Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. August is currently the owner and director of the award winning Made Up Theatre (MUT) in Fremont, California, a theatre which specializes in performing completely improvised plays.  He has performed with MUT at improv festivals throughout the country receiving numerous honors and accolades - most recently winning "Best Improv Group" at the 2013 Sacramento Comedy Festival.  August's improv education includes training at the world famous Second City and Annoyance Theatre in Chicago.  He has also taught and performed with ComedySportz for several years.  August has earned an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Davis and loves teaching and performing both scripted and improvisational theatre.

Maria Candelaria is a San Francisco-based actor. She has worked on world premieres 
with such noted playwrights as Luis Valdez and Octavio Solis. Over the years, she has also had the pleasure of working with Intersection for the Arts, Thick Description, Word for Word, Aurora Theatre, Shotgun Players and the San Diego Repertory Theatre. She is a life-long member of the internationally –recognized El Teatro Campesino. Candelaria holds an MFA in Dramatic Art from the University of California at Davis.

MaryBeth Cavanaugh has been an Associate Artist at California Shakespeare Theater for seventeen seasons; Oregon Shakespeare Festival, for five seasons as choreographer and actor; Shakespeare Santa Cruz for eight seasons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The New Victory Theater; Yale Repertory Theatre; Cincinnati Playhouse; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; La Mama E.T.C.; Aurora Theatre Company; Lincoln Center Director’s Lab; San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; TheatreWorks; Shakespeare at Stinson; Mills College Rep; Summerfest Dance. Cavanaugh has directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, TheatreFIRST; Proof, Town Hall Theatre Company; Twelfth Night, North Bay Shakespeare Company; Measure for Measure and The Red Wheelbarrow, Shakespeare at Stinson; Peter and the Wolf, Napa Valley Repertory Theatre. Cavanaugh currently teaches in the MFA program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis and has taught in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance studies at UC Berkeley, California Shakespeare Theater and at Berkeley Rep School of Theatre where she is the Associate Director.  Cavanaugh received her MFA in Dance Composition from Mills College.

Iu-Hui Chua choreographs, performs, directs, and devises physical theater, dance, and video performance. She has been fiscally sponsored by Asian American Dance Performances and has presented her work nationally and internationally at the San Francisco International Arts Festival, SomaFest (Los Angeles), Apature, San Francisco Art Institute, ODC Summerfest, Mondavi Vanderhoef Studio, Sea Ranch and various site-specific locations in North America, Asia, and Europe.  Chua has danced as a company member for iconic dance pioneer Anna Halprin, Ledoh and Salt Farm, Dandelion Dancetheater, Plaza, Labayen Dance, California Theater Ballet, and Headmistress. She is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the bi-coastal company, Open Experiments Ensemble.  Notable collaborative works include dance films “All Flesh is Grass” with Terre Parker, which toured Europe as a Special Selection Finalist for the Videoholica International Video Art Festival 2012 (Bulgaria), and “Nexus” with fellow 212 member Christine Germain winning Best Experimental Film at the UC Davis Film Festival 2013.  Chua holds a BA in Sociology with an emphasis in Race and Ethnic Relations from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in Dramatic Arts with an emphasis in Choreography from University of California Davis where she was awarded a Dramatic Arts Fellowship. Her works have been funded and supported by the Puffin Foundation Ltd., UC Davis Consortium for Women and Research, and The UC Davis Institute for Exploration in Theater, Dance and Performance. 

Christine Germain is a French-Canadian who came to San Francisco State University as part of an international exchange program in 2006 and quickly decided to make the Bay Area her home. A movement explorer, performer, choreographer, personal trainer and a Guild Certified Feldenkrais practitioner, she earned her BFA in contemporary dance at Concordia University in Montreal, and her MFA in Dramatic Arts/ Choreography at UC Davis. Christine has danced for Nita Little, Kim Epifano, Iu-Hui Chua, Jesse Hewit, Alex Ketley, Amy Lewis, Paco Gomes, and Cathleen McCarthy among others. She has performed In England, India, Canada and the United States. Germain created her dance company “Christine Germain and Dancers”  in 2007 (www.cganddancers.org) after receiving the CA$H grant award from Dancer's Group and Theatre Bay Area. She received the UCDavis & Humanities Graduate Research Award and was awarded “Most promising choreographer” at the Montreal Fringe Festival in July 2012. Most recently, she collaborated on the dance movie “Nexus” with fellow 212 member Iu-Hui Chua with which they won “Best experimental film Award.” Germain practices and teaches the Feldenkrais Method privately and at Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Susan-Jane Harrison was born in London, UK and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).  Most notably, she has worked  in the UK with the Royal National Theatre Company, BBC Radio 4, and A&BC Theatre Company.   In the San Francisco Bay Area she has performed at  Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Aurora Theatre Company, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival (California Shakespeare Theater), Woman's Will and ACT.  As a dancer, she has been a member of the contemporary dance troupe Akat and co-artistic director of Bollywood Groove (Chicago).  Her first play "Alaska" was produced on BBC Radio 4; a second play, "The Quetzal" has been produced on the PBS satellite network.  In 2012 she received a Fellowship through the University of California, Davis to develop her new stage play, "Today I Live", which has been workshopped on two occasions in London at RADA. Harrison has been a Teaching Artist with California Shakespeare Theater and teaches at Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, specializing in Laban Movement, classical text and dialect. She holds an MFA from UC Davis.

Aaron Jessup was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, grew up in rural New York and is a second-generation San Francisco street performer. Initially trained in circus acrobatics, Jessup's first movement love was contact improvisation dance, which he began teaching 1997. Aaron has taught workshops and at festivals nationally and internationally, including WCCIF (CA), Earthdance (MA), Contact Festival Freiburg (GER) and Contact In Rio (BRA). His classes and performances are heavily influenced by his eclectic background as a dancer, martial artist, acrobat, actor, river guide, animal tracker and bodyworker. Jessup has performed with Pickle Family Circus, Make*A*Circus and the Izzy-Award winning Scott Wells & Dancers. Jessup began street performing at 16 years old and has since performed his solo comedy/juggling/rope walking show in 10 countries, winning top honors at international busking competitions. A two-time recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship, Jessup recently received his MFA in Dramatic Art/Acting at UC Davis. He currently teaches at the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre and at other locations throughout the San Francsico Bay Area. Information about Jessup's classes, along with his one-man show, Flying Dreams, can be found here.